Portland-State-University 2024-2025 Bulletin

SySc 523 Systems Ideas and Sustainability: Limits, Structural Change, and Resilience

This course offers a systems-theoretic perspective on sustainability. Using graph theory, non-linear dynamics, game/decision theory, thermodynamics, and theories of complexity and complex adaptive systems, the course explores systems insights into the challenge of environmental, economic, and social sustainability and systems principles to help us meet this challenge.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

upper-division standing and completion of one of the SySc 300-level cluster courses.
  • Up one level
  • 500